between the cow’s horns:
St. Elmo’s fire ... turn left
at the fork in the sky

nuclear orphanage …
all the point threes
of a child line up

drew us a diagram ...
hence, our universe
is that diagram

to keep you warm my child …
she knits some of the sunlight
into the scarf

John W. Sexton lives in the Republic of Ireland and is the author of six poetry collections, the most recent being Futures Pass (Salmon Poetry, 2018). Under the ironic pseudonym of Sex W. Johnston he has recorded an album with legendary Stranglers frontman, Hugh Cornwell, entitled Sons Of Shiva, which has been released on Track Records. He is a past nominee for The Hennessy Literary Award and his poem The Green Owl won the Listowel Poetry Prize 2007. In 2007 he was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry.